Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon/*: kfree() correct pointers

Hi Alexey,

> The adm9240 driver, in adm9240_detect(), allocates a structure.  The
> error path attempts to kfree() ->client field of it (second one),
> resulting in an oops (or slab corruption) if the hardware is not
> present.
> 
> ->client field in adm1026, adm1031, smsc47b397 and smsc47m1 is the
> first in ${HWMON}_data structure, but fix them too.

Already fixed in Greg's i2c tree and -mm for quite some time now...

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-02-i2c/i2c-hwmon-class-01.patch

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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